Great American Short Stories: Hawthorne, Poe, Cather, Melville, London, James, Crane, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bierce, Twain & More Contributor(s): Negri, Paul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0486421198 ISBN-13: 9780486421193 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $7.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2002017525 |
Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.27" W x 8.28" (0.44 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale Young Goodman Brown and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, The Killers. Other selections include Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, Melville's Bartleby, Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp, To Build a Fire, by Jack London, The Real Thing by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of tales will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere. |